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蛇スープ (えびスープ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

蛇えびスープ

Meanings

1

noun

snake soup

food / cooking

A soup made with snake meat, considered a delicacy in some East and Southeast Asian cuisines.

香港ほんこんで蛇えびスープを初はじめて食たべた。
I ate snake soup for the first time in Hong Kong.

Kanji

蛇snake, serpent, hard drinker

Etymology

Compound of 蛇 (hebi, 'snake') with an irregular reading えび, and スープ (sūpu, 'soup'). The origin of the reading えび for 蛇 is uncertain; it may be a dialectal or specialized culinary term.